On the 3rd of February 2009 an item entitled PROVIDE STATE OF THE ART LEISURE FACILITIES NEW POOL ON PIER PARADE went to the council’s decision making cabinet. The full report makes interesting reading as it clearly states that the content of the building will be as follows: 25 metre 8 lane swimming pool with spectator [...]
Thursday’s meeting of the Council to set the budget for the coming year saw the Independent Alliance present an amendment to the budget which would have meant no increase in the Council Tax for this year. The reduction in costs that it proposed centred around such things as reducing the cost of consultants, removing special responsibility [...]
One of the many driving forces behind the desire to become a councillor is to ensure that public money is spent wisely and that those who spend it remain accountable to the electorate. That is certainly one of the views held by Independent Councillor John Hodgson (Monkton Ward). John was elected in May 2008, and [...]
At the October 2009 meeting of the Borough Council the leader of the Independent Alliance revealed that South Tyneside Council would be making up to 350 of it’s employees redundant. Within minutes of our revelations being made all council employees received an e-mail from the Acting Chief Executive informing them of the news. Staff have now received a second e-mail which explains why the [...]
The people of South Tyneside are once again about to be hit by another rise in their council tax bills from April 2010. The only question is by how much? The borough’s citizen panel is currently being ‘consulted’ on what they think the rise should be. They’ve been given three options, 1%, 4% or 5%. [...]
At the full meeting of the Council on Thursday 3rd December two very important notices of motion were voted down without any discussion. The meeting had lasted 3 hours as there had been a number of lengthy discussions mainly around how the full Council meeting was run. That discussion resulted in Labour, Conservative, Progressive and [...]
We have been advised by South Tyneside Council that all bin collection services are now back to normal following the recent disruption caused by bad weather. Waste bins are now being collected only on your usual collection day and any extra bags of rubbish will also be taken. Wheeled bins – residents should just put their [...]
South Tyneside Council has had to cancel plans for extra bin collections to take place this weekend due to further adverse weather. Heavy snowfall overnight has given even more problems for crews trying to catch up on missed collections. The advice to all residents is not to put their waste bins out this weekend. From [...]
UPDATE: Tuesday 12th January 2010 we have been advised by South Tyneside Council that all schools in the borough have now reopened following the recent disruption caused by bad weather. Friday 8th January 10am The Boldon School has reopened today Boldon Nursery has closed for the day St Mary’s Primary and Nursery School has closed for the day St [...]
The town hall is full of talk about the new BT Office development on Harton Staithes and it seems that not everybody is convinced that South Tyneside Council should be turning property developer and borrowing £15 million to do it! A recent report by the Audit Commission says local councils are unsuccessfully managing the value of their property assets – no [...]